SOS Children’s Villages, Chicago Building Development, Illinois Real Estate Architecture, Photos
SOS Children’s Villages in Chicago
Sep 29, 2021
Architects: JGMA
Location: Roosevelt Square, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Photos by Tom Rotisser
SOS Children’s Villages, IL
The design for the new SOS Children?s Villages Illinois and Maestro Cares Community Center exemplifies a unification of SOS?s child-fostering mission, with the surrounding family ?villages? of the Roosevelt Square community. The prominent corner site along the active Blue Island Avenue, just south and west of Chicago?s downtown area, welcomes engagement with adjacent residential neighborhoods, while presenting a positive and compelling outward image to the public.
SOS Children?s Villages Illinois?s Roosevelt Square Community Center is a new single-story Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) office and community center with kitchen space near their Roosevelt Square Village property.

This center is an 11,000 square foot space that serves the children and families at Roosevelt Square Village and surrounding communities. Programs include academic, therapeutic, social, and recreational support; multi-use spaces for community members to connect to public resources and engage in training, activities, and events; and a signature culinary kitchen providing food and nutrition education, as well as job-skills training for the hospitality industry. In addition to the more than one hundred children and families ca...